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Hm. Whilst looking up some of your terminology -- LCA; Sparse Table -- I ran across this. Maybe you've seen it already, but it sounds vaguely related.

Maybe you'll understand it well enough to work out how to implement it. Assuming it is actually useful.

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Re^6: bit-vector > global minimum
by Marshall (Canon) on Oct 03, 2011 at 22:56 UTC
    I saw and looked at that also. It appeared to me that the OP has a special case of this situation.
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